EXAMINING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (IDENTIFICATION) ACT, 2022
EXAMINING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (IDENTIFICATION) ACT, 2022 WRITTEN BY: MANUSHI UPADHYAYA 2 ND YEAR B.A. LL. B HONS. MAHARASHTRA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, MUMBAI EDITED BY:VAISHNAVI PARATE 3 RD YEAR, LL.B SHRI NATHMAL GOENKA LAW COLLEGE, AKOLA On 18 th April 2022, the Parliament of India passed Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022 [1] with the goal of authorizing the collection and preservation of measurements of convicts and other individuals for the purposes of identification and criminal investigation. This Act replaced the Identification of Prisoners Act, of 1920 [2] in turn expanding the scope of data that can be collected, the persons who are authorized to collect such data, as well as the persons whose data can be collected. Section 2(1)(b) defines the term “Measurements” as something that includes finger impressions, palm-print impr...